Hi Simon,
> On 5 Jul 2018, at 20:08, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On July 5, 2018 6:37:58 PM GMT+02:00, Martin Sebor <mse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ada tests don't seem to respond to the INT signal: when
>>> I interrupt a parallel make check while the Ada tests are
>>> running, other test suites are interrupted as well and go
>>> away, but ada tests keep running. Is there some trick to
>>> have Ctrl-C have the expected effect on the Ada test suite
>>> as well or is this is a bug?
>>
>> It only happens sometimes to me. I guess this is a bug.
>>
>> Richard.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's a bug, in the 'acats' part of the test, not the 'gnat'
> part; it's happened to me repeatedly while developing an upgraded ACATS
> suite over at https://github.com/simonjwright/ACATS
> <https://github.com/simonjwright/ACATS>.
nice work.
> (by the way, to run just this part of the suite, it's 'make check-acats').
>
> No doubt the problem is that the suite runs as a shell script, and the C-c
> doesn't get applied at the right place(s).
>
> I'm not sure that I'm up to what would be a major recasting of the 2,500 or
> so test programs into a dejagnu framework (would that be likely to fix this
> issue?).
FWIW, I'd started a patch for this way back:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-01/msg02310.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01469.html
but never completed it.
Rainer
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